15 ideas to decorate a pink and white bathroom

For the second story in our series, 99 ideas to decorate a pink bathroom, today let’s look ideas to decorate a pink and white bathroom. And as with all the stories in this series, we invite you to email us your decorating ideas — instructions and tools to make your own mood boards are at the end this story.

Pink and white bathroom design ideas inspired by wallpaper

Flirty and feminine: Again, I found loads of vintage wallpaper that coordinated wonderfully with a pink and white bathroom at Hannah’s Treasures. First up, this feminine, small scale pink and white flower patterned wallpaper, paired with a plain white shower curtain and white and pale pink towels. The medium warm grey background keeps the space from feeling too saccharine, while clusters of fluffy flowers float on complementary green stems.

Natural and light: Next, this 1940s Nancy McClelland vintage wallpaper with a fan and flower motifhelps to give the room a neutral feel while still keeping things interesting. The zig zag fan pattern adds movement to the space. And once again, pairing this paper with a plain white shower curtain and white and beige towels helps keep the room from feeling too busy.

Aqua swan sanctuary: Our third wallpaper choice — this aqua paper with pink and white swans from Hannah’s Treasures — really punches up the color in the room. Using a predominately aqua paper makes the pink feel neutral by comparison, yet the pairing feels bright and fresh. Finishing the room off with a white shower curtain and coordinating aqua and white towels helps create a cohesive look.

Here is my attempt at decorating a pink bathroom. I’m imagining this was the”girl’s bathroom” and they decided to redecorate it when they became teenagers, sometime around 1970 (originally built about 1954). The girls wanted something hip and cool. 🙂

Well done, Robin — GREAT color combinations and we love how you combined the floral with the gingham — it works!

Pink and white bathrooms with a color scheme grounded in the shower curtain

Crazy for chrysanthemums: Now, for the first of the paint looks, this chrysanthemum printed shower curtainwith light purple, hot pink and maroon flowers on a white background works well with the pink and white tile, and allows us to paint the wall a deep pinkish maroon, to emulate the look of a vintage pink and maroon bathroom with a modern twist. Pink and white towels finish off the look.

Summer garden: This bright and modern flower shower curtain is as cute as it is colorful. Painting the wall a bright yellowy orange to match the shower curtain gives the room a cheery feel. Topping off the look: coordinating pink and white towels.

Mermaids know their pink: Pam here. In order to get this series launched, Kate immersed herself in wallpaper and shower curtain options. But now, I am also trying to think of *quirky* places to go look, starting with more shower curtains. For whimsy / novelty designs, don’t forget to go look at PBKids and PBTeen. Here’s a mermaid shower curtain and cute as all get out coordinating bathroom towels at PB Kids. While I don’t think this design board is truly successful — the pinks are too clashy — I did want to feature it (1) to call out the PB youth sites and (2) to show how pretty a light yellow paint can look in a pink bathroom. And when choosing yellow paints: Remember to consider the LRV and intensity issues!

Now it’s your turn to be the designer!

Want to help us create design board ideas for a pink-and-white tile bathroom? Here’s how:

Use the image above as the basis for your design board.

Pam uses Powerpoint to create her design boards – it’s good for putting photos side-by-side – but use whatever program you like to arrange your design board. We’ve also created this image of complete page that you can start with, if you’d like – just save it and insert into Powerpoint to get started fast.

It’s okay if your board is kinda messy: I will take what you send us and reformat it. We’ll then add the reader design boards to this story, and likely, in a big followup story.

Find your wall treatment and add it — be sure to include the hotlink info to your source material

Find your shower curtain and add it — be sure to include the hotlink info

Find your bath towels and add them — be sure to include the hotlink info

Give your design a title (include your own name if you like)

Save as a PDF and email to us at retrodesigndilemma@gmail.com. Please put all info in one email.

My favorites so far are the ones that pull in either aqua or gray as the third color. My least favorite is the yellow. As my mom used to say about color co-ordination in the 1950s, “It swears. Pink and yellow swear with each other.” I realize now that her aesthetic (and that of many of her contemporaries) couldn’t embrace cool and warm colors together, or stripes and plaids, or plaids and prints.

Although I generally love pink bathrooms, the pink-white base as featured today doesn’t do it for me–it always seems a little tired. i’m not sure why! The only ones that seemed to “pop” for me were those that warmed it up. But I loved yesterday’s ideas with pink and black, so at least it’s not the pink.

I guess I am one of the few pink bathroom owners that went with pin up girls??? I haven’t done anything to my walls. Still the light pink that was there when I moved in. I am contemplating a dove gray though as the paint is peeling near the top a bit.

Favorite today is the Aqua swan wallpaper. Sad that all the best wallpaper is in the past & it didn’t cost a fortune.
These pink bath ideas are great as I’m still figuring out in my head what I want for my eventual bathroom..what color combination..i just can’t decide..I’m playing with tile samples some days its pink & seafoam green (with mermaids in mind) other days I like pink with creamy yellow (like a tropical sunset)! This will all have to work with probably white (or an off white that doesn’t read dingy) tub, sink, toilet as everything needs replacing.

Here’s a fun fact about pink and white bathrooms. We all know Mary Kay and her famous pink cars that she gives to the high sellers. Well, it’s not because she loved pink. At the time she started her company, pink and white bathrooms were all the rage. She wanted her products to match the bathrooms, hence, the pink and white bottles, etc., and later, the pink Caddies.

i bought an old house with pink double sink and toilet, so i bought a dust pink tile to make evrything pink. I am not a girly girl but i really like the eccentric retro effect. The problem is the tiles are darker than the sink and toilet, making that contrast change the colour to something like orangy cremy light salmon. Should i go better for white sink,toilet? I still have to make other bathroom so i could use the pink sink and toilet with white tiles to make justice to their pink.
I also have a super cool blue toilet , would it match with the dusty dark pink tiles and white sink? Or that sounds too much going on. The floor is concerete tiles.